On 29 July 2018 at 05:12, John Dammeyer wrote:
> I'm still pondering over replacing my ELS project with a Beaglebone running
> MachineKit so it can run G-Code but use the keypad and display from my
> original ELS and duplicate the manual style of operation when needed.
FWIW there used to be a Lin
Thanks.
Interesting. Would definitely need some rewriting for a Beagle or Pi since the
getStats() func is looking for "/dev/hda1", and "top" command expects something
different for "cpu" and "mem".
* The layout is for a 4 line by 20 character display.
* Supported interfaces include Serial and
On 29 July 2018 at 18:25, John Dammeyer wrote:
> If I understand the code correctly it treats the display as if it's
> connected via Ethernet to "localhost", "port 13666" so I'm not sure how the
> interface is a Serial or USB.
Possibly through a driver. I think that Matrix Orbital might still
That would make sense. Years ago, since my ELS has a spot for a CAN bus driver
chip, I wrote a CANopen module for it that treated it simply as a display and
keypad.
Supported simple PDO messages with message #'s rather than strings to keep bus
traffic to a minimum. So if you want to display